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12th Chamber Music Festival
26.08 – 04.09
In Europe, the division between West and East is not purely geographical; it is also—and primarily—cultural. In terms of music, the serious musical tradition of Central Europe (and of the German lands, in particular) between the 18th and 20th centuries clearly emphasizes expressive coherence and density, morphological architecture and harmonic clarity. In contrast, the East was gradually discovering a 'voice' of its own which focused more on striking a balance between a living folk tradition and its admiration of Western achievements, between the surfeit of passion at the core of the Slavic soul and the disarming "coldness" that often describes its surface. It is these contrasting aesthetic tendencies, this dissonant coexistence, that sets the tone for the European musical pluralism which the 12th Chamber Music Festival Chania seeks to spotlight. Each of its six concerts will juxtapose works from the German Classical and Romantic tradition with works from Russia, Poland, Armenia and the Czech Republic, all of them written in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Emblematic as it is of the German spirit, Ludwig van Beethoven's music could hardly be absent from the Festival: his famous Septet, though written in his youth, would go on to become one of the composer's best loved and frequently performed works, even during Beethoven's own lifetime.
7 Concerts
The Septet also provided the model for Schubert's Octet, with both works delighting audiences with a timbral feast of strings combined with woodwind and brass. Exploring the very heart of the chamber music repertoire, the vibrant Zimbalist Trio, consisting of distinguished alumni of the Curtis School of Music, one of the very best in the United States, will perform Schumann and Dvořák's thoroughbred romantic trios along with the heartrending trio by the Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, which was inspired by the brutality of World War II.
An entire concert will be dedicated to the two-piano repertoire, a combination that is making its first appearance at the Festival. The renowned Greek pianists, Vassilis Varvaressos and Titus Gouvelis, Festival stalwarts both, will perform Johannes Brahms' momentous Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Sergei Rachmaninoff's sensual First Suite, along with the explosively virtuosic Variations on a Theme of Paganini by Witold Lutoslawski. Of course, the Festival programme also contains some lighter interludes with witty, sensitive, evergreen works like Khachaturian's Trio (with its quotes from Armenian traditional music) or Prokofiev's modernist Quintet.
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12th Chamber Music Festival Chania
Concerts
Monday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
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PEO Kissamou Chanion
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21:00
Wednesday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
21:00
Friday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
21:00
Saturday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
21:00
Sunday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
21:00
Tuesday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
21:00
Wednesday
ΜΙΝΟΑ PALACE
Minoa Palace Resort
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
PEO Kissamou Chanion
Platanias73014
Platanias73014
